The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant

There are cobbled streets and old half-timbered houses, beautiful old churches and creepy castles. Actually I found Bad Münstereifel the most fascinating place. “You can walk from one end of the town to the other in about two minutes,” he said. When we moved to Bad Münstereifel in 2001 my husband was anxious that I would be bored. It’s the setting of The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, and it’s not a fictional place-–it’s a real town, and we lived there for seven wonderful years. The book was inspired by the little town of Bad Münstereifel in Germany. I’m often asked “What inspired you to write The Vanishing of Katharina Linden?” I never get tired of this particular question, because it’s a subject that lies very close to my heart. Helen Grant on The Vanishing of Katharina Linden 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Her other darkly thrilling young adult novels, The Glass Demon and Wish Me Dead, are also available from Penguin. Wonderful' Guardian 'A strange, haunting modern fairy tale' John Connolly, author of The Book of Lost Things The setting of the small German town of Bad Münstereifel, in Helen Grant's debut novel The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, is based on her own experience of emigrating there from England as a child.

'For something so chilling, it is terrific entertainment' Sunday Times 'Grant's splendid debut.is a feast of treats and creeps. How could a ten-year-old girl vanish in a place where everybody knows everybody else? Pia is determined to find out what happened to Katharina. On the day Katharina Linden disappears, Pia is the last person to see her. The Vanishing of Katharina Linden bridges the world of the traditional Grimm fairytale with the darker world of Angela Carter's adult fairytales. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Helen Grant's first teen novel The Vanishing of Katharina Linden follows a misfit teenager as she attempts to unravel the mystery of several strange disappearances in the small town of Bad Münstereifel.

The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant